This Day in 1901 Archives: July 1901

All stories from the Buffalo Evening
News, unless otherwise noted

July 1: Canada
celebrates her conquest of Buffalo by denominating this first day of July
and the first of the reign of His Brittanic Majesty King Edward VII as
Dominion Day at the Exposition. The conquest was a peaceful one. In general
outline it was patterned after the Gen. Miles campaign in Porto Rico, lacking
only the tropical gush of the Porto Ricans. The 48th Highlanders did it.
When they struck town yesterday Buffalo surrendered. Those intimidating
busbies, those bonnie red jackets, the irresistible kilties, those stall-fed
calves, the far-gleaming knees, those husky shoulders - there was no use
in opposing such an aggregation of manly attractions and Buffalo surrendered
gracefully. In triumph then, while the merry musicians nodded their plumes
and played "God Save the King" and "Blue Bonnets Over the Border," the
gallant Highlanders marched to the camp near Lincoln Parkway with a cadence
that shook the earth.

There was a lilting swagger
to their tread that was particularly edifying to behold. When the band
was not playing, the soldiers swung along as if keeping time to the refrain..

Today the British flag floats
from the flagstaff in the West Esplanade, and its splendors gleam afar,
also, from the flagstaff near the Electric Tower. The weather is as fine
as if it had been made to order for the Canadian visitors. The sun is hot,
but a cool breeze tempers the heat.

The 48th Regiment Highlanders,
one of two kilted regiments in Canada, left Toronto 10 o'clock over the
Grand Trunk road yesterday and reached the railroad gate of the Pan-American
Exposition at 1:30 o'clock. The regiment left Toronto 507 strong - officers
and men - and traveled in a special train of 13 cars - 10 passenger coaches,
one parlor car for the officers, a baggage car and a Palace horse coach
for the officers' horses.

The Highlanders presented
a brave appearance when they left the train at the Pan-American. Their
uniform consists of red coat, plaid kilt of the Davidson Tartan, black
and red stockings, white canvas half-leggings, and black ostrich feather
bonnets. The troops were in heavy marching order with full armament and
equipment. Maj. Wolf met them at the railroad gate and a squad of Exposition
guards were present to escort them to the camp. The Sunday crowds, which
seemed smaller than usual, gave the Canadian soldiers a hearty welcome
and played "The Invincible Eagle" as they marched across the Esplanade.
The famous 48th Highlander Band responded with a composite piece, containing
prettily blended strains of "God Save Our King" and "Yankee Doodle Dandy".

July 2: Five persons
were overcome by the heat at the Exposition grounds yesterday, but in each
case the patient recovered soon after being taken to the Exposition hospital
on the grounds. The prostration occurred in the following order: Russell
J. Thomas, 11 years old, of Akron, O.; Edward E. Locke, 34 years old, of
Chicago; Helen Loveland, 3 years old, of Peru, Ind., with her parents visiting
at 148 Anderson Place; Mrs. Edward Bentz, 48 years old, of Plymouth, Mass.;
and Dorothy Northrope, 19 years old, of 627 Ellicott Street.

The maximum temperature registered
at the hospital was 91.2 degrees. The Exposition officials are planning
to sprinkle the walks oftener.

Joseph Hotchkiss, a painter
of 236 Bird Avenue, was overcome by heat while working on the New York
Central trestle near Scajaquada Creek. Somebody telephoned for the Homeopathic
Hospital ambulance, but Hotchkiss was revived before the ambulance arrived,
and he refused to go to the hospital. This was the only case of heat prostration
reported in the city outside the Exposition grounds.

July
3: New York's stately marble palace overlooking the North Bay of the Park
Lake will be finished today. The painters are laying on the last leaflets of
gold upon the frieze of the grand hallway, and charwomen are scrubbing the tiles
floors. Other brisk workers are removing the wrappings from articles of furniture
which will be installed in their respective places before sunset. Every arrangement
is calculated with the view of having the building complete in every detail
when the sun rises on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence tomorrow.

The first public function
in the building will take place on Friday night, when Hon. C.R. Skinner,
State Superintendent of Public Instruction, will give a reception there
to the members of the New York State Teachers' Association.

Charles E. Glynn of Oswego,
the registry clerk of the building, opened the registration book yesterday.
252 persons registered the first day. The first name registered was that
of Mrs. M.A. Sprague of New York.

Ground was broken for the
handsome edifice early in the spring of 1900, and the first work upon the
building was begun on the 26th of June.

The landscape surrounding
the New York State building is an ideal one. A steep bank of fresh green
sod leads from the driveway in front of the building down to where the
ripples of North Bay break upon the strand. This bluff runs eastward, turning
gradually toward the south to embrace the Gala Water, and being fringed
with noble trees. Near the building are three pieces of sculpture, "Aspiration,"
"Intelligence," and "Progress." "Aspiration" stands on the north side.
It is by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney of New York and shows a male figure standing
with eyes lifted toward the heavens and with upturned palms expressive
of human longing after divine ideals. "Intelligence" is by Edwin F. Elwell
of New York and stands on the south side. A female figure sits upon a throne,
holding a ball in the left hand representing the divine and perfect law
from which crude man came. An open book in the lap represents natural intelligence
among men. The feet of the goddess "Intelligence" rest upon a stool with
swine's feet representing the lowest forms of intelligence. "Progress",
by Hendrick Christian Anderson of Newport, R.I., is a colossal group showing
a naked youth bestriding a powerful horse typefying man's mastery and use
of Nature.

All the lawns are studded
with flower beds and the spacious porticos on the north and south contain
glossy green bay trees in tubs.

July 4: Program
for the Exposition July 4 Celebration2:30 p.m. - Athletic games
and lacrosse championship contest in the Stadium7:30 p.m. Combined evening
parade on the Esplanade of the United States Coast Artillery, Marine Corps
and Hospital Corps, led by the combined 65th and 74th Regimental Bands,
under the leadership of Drum Major August Schneider of the 74th Regiment.8 p.m. - Band concert on
the Esplanade with the Havana Municipal Police Band in the East Esplanade
band stand.8:30 p.m. Sousa's Band in
the Stadium. During the concert the American flag will be displayed under
searchlight. Sousa's Band will play "The Star-Spangled Banner" and the
audience will sing as the banner is lighted up by searchlights.9 p.m. Fairy illumination
of the lake front and islands with Japanese lanterns, electric fountain
and electric lights.

July 5: Two
sheets of rare United States postage stamps, valued at $3000, were stolen
sometime Wednesday night from the Postoffice exhibit in the Government
Building at the Exposition. As soon as the theft was discovered, it was
reported to the Pan-American detective force, and to Supt. Bull.
A special agent of the secret service department has also been summoned
from Washington to follow up the case.

Two guards are constantly
on duty in the Government Building at night, and as the theft was of such
character that it could not have been accomplished within much less than
a half hour, the fact that the work was done so quietly as not to be discovered
by the guards, appears rather surprising.

Philatelists are naturally
greatly interested in the collection of United States postage stamps exhibited
by the Postoffice Department for it was the only complete collection of
United States stamps in existence. This exhibit was shown in frames which
swing on a pivot, a case similar to that used by the police for rogues'
galleries. The case which was robbed stands in the extreme rear of the
postal exhibit. It was no light undertaking, the theft of the stamps. Each
of the nine frames, 19x24, which held the collection, were hinged to an
iron pillar. The stolen frames had been wrenched from the post and the
stamps taken by opening the frames from the back, the same means by which
they had been inserted.

The theft was discovered
yesterday morning by one of the attendants. Search was at once instituted
and one of the stamp frames was found behind the old stage coach. The other
frame was found on the lawn on the south side of the Government building.

The stolen stamps comprised
part of the most valuable exhibit in the Postal Department. They
belong to private stamp collectors and were loaned for exhibition at the
Pan-American Exposition by the owners.

A list of the stolen stamps
will be sent out today to all the stamp collectors and dealers in the United
States and Canada so they may be on the lookout if any of the stolen stamps
are offered for sale.

July 6: It is being
arranged to establish a creche for infants in arms at the Exposition. The
necessity of the arrangement was demonstrated long ago, but the Exposition
was embarrassed by the difficulty of finding anybody to take hold of it.
It was suggested at first to make it an adjunct to the Women's building
and have it become part of the duties of the Board of Women Managers to
show how babies should be looked after. The Board of Women Managers, however,
met the proposition with a frost. "No, thank you - we have troubles enough
of our own," was their reply to the invitation to become creche managers.

The proposition now is to
have the care of the babies become a part of the hospital management. Two
large tents will be pitched, the one near the hospital and the other near
the Women's Building. Miss Adella Walters, superintendent of the hospital,
will have general oversight of the creche.

Dr. Roswell Park denounces
as unwarranted and malicious the statement in a morning paper that when
persons have called at the hospital to inquire for missing friends they
have been met with a refusal on the part of the hospital management to
tell whether the missing ones are in the hospital or not.

"The statement was inspired
out of revenge because we have refused to give to the press the names of
persons who have been brought to the hospital when the patients expressed
a wish that their names not be published," said Dr.Park. "Many of the patients
don't want friends to be worried by exaggerated reports as to their condition.
If the patients are willing we give their names, not otherwise. It is the
same as in any hospital.

July 7: Detroit.
Because there is an Exposition in Buffalo this year there is a servant
girl famine in Detroit. There is the same famine in cities nearer the Exposition
than this, and why the boom times in household work should affect Detroit,
so far away, isn't easy to see, but good servants, or in fact any servants
at all, are nearly as scarce as hen's teeth, and the housewives who are
doing their own work say that it is all due to the Pan-American fair.

Two months ago there were
lots of servants here, and competent ones were content to earn $3 a week.
Now all that has changed. It became known that there were plenty of places
in Buffalo in which a servant could earn $5 and $6 a week, have plenty
of nights out, and see the Exposition and all the gay sights in the bargain.

That settled it. The servants
announced with unanimity that they were going to spend the summer in Buffalo
with their aunt, and now many housekeepers have closed their homes for
the summer owing to the scarcity of trained help, the employment bureaus
are sending up distress signals, and lots of women who never expected to
do their own work are doing it as cheerfully as may be now, and making
the best of it.

All that the sufferers have
to suggest is that this is a golden opportunity for girls from the country
to secure easy jobs at good wages. Summer is a hard time for girl-helpers
on a farm, and an easy time for servants in town. There are a score of
cities near Buffalo in the same difficulties that Detroit is in, and in
consequence hundreds of good places open to such girls if they want to
take them. With a little training they can fit themselves for top places
in a labor market where the supply of experts is never equal to the demand,
and the reward is large in proportion.

July 8: With one-third
of the Pan-American Exposition gone, the views of the concessionaires concerning
its success or failure up to date and prospective are now appropriate and
timely. The concessionaire is your real Exposition expert. As the astrologer
reads the past, present and future in the stars, and as the haruspex divines
them in the livers of slain animals, so the concessionaire reads them in
quality and bulk of the business done at the turnstiles.

In an interview with two
of these this morning the NEWS reporter obtained the following estimate.
The interviewed were Fritz Mueller of "Pabst-in-the-Midway" and Frederick
Thompson of "The Trip to the Moon".

"I'm not kicking, mind,">
began Fritz Mueller, "but the Pan-American is not going to have the attendance
we were led to expect. I have done better than most of my neighbors on
the Midway, but I haven't done what I had reason to expect I would do.

"Take the Fourth, for instance.
I took in $400 more at Omaha on that day than I did here. I fully expected
to take in $1000 more here than I did at Omaha. That is the difference
between expectation and realization.

"Between you and me the crowds
are not going to roll in here as they were expected to. See how it was
Saengerfest week. There ought to have been at least 100,000 here every
day. With all the strangers in town and the attractions here the Exposition
ought to have boomed. Well, it didn't. As I said before, I have no kick
coming because I am doing better than the majority, but things are not
coming as swift as I looked to see them. What is the reason of it? Don't
ask me. I wouldn't give $5 on the hundred for any stock in the Exposition."

Mr. Thompson of "The Trip
to the Moon" said, "I look to see the attendance improve from now on. Things
are coming about as I expected them. I didn't look for any crowds before
July and am not disappointed. The Trip to the Moon is doing all I expected.
The average days here are doing better than the best days at Omaha.

"I shall make good on my
investment with the average days and have the best days for my profit.
I think every concession will pull out with some profit except some of
those deluded ones that should not have started up at all.

July 9: The Martha
P. Thomas Pan-American Club of Peru, Ind., which arrived here last night,
can claim the distinction of being the first organization of the kind to
visit the Exposition. Similar clubs will doubtless make their appearance
here before the Pan-American is over, but the Peru club is the first on
the spot.

There are 126 members of
the club, young ladies and children. They arrived last evening in three
special cars, and after reporting to their boarding places, which had been
engaged in advance, they congregated at the Buffalo Library and visited
the Exposition grounds in a body, entering through the Lincoln Parkway
gate and arriving in the Esplanade just in time to witness the illuminations.

"The club was formed just
a year ago," said Miss Thomas, who organized the club. "We have 64 charter
members, and when the aims of the organization became known the membership
rapidly increased. Each member was required to deposit with the treasurer
$1 each week, that amount to be credited to the depositor. This gave us
$52 from each of the members. During the winter we gave several entertainments
and instituted a lecture course. By the time the Exposition opened we were
all prepared, financially, to visit the big show. A large number of our
members are shop girls and not a few of them clerks. There are nine men
in the party, and we are also acting as chaperones to several children
whose parents are unable to come to the Exposition, but who desired that
their children see the show."

July 10: Directors
of the Exposition met yesterday afternoon in the Service building, following
a meeting of the executive committee of the Pan-American and discussed
the railroad situation. It was decided that something should be done at
once to bring the subject of railroad rates, as they affected the Exposition,
to the attention of the railroads at once. They appointed a committee to
attend to this, with full power to act. The committee consists of J.N.
Scatcherd, chairman; W. Caryl Ely, Henry J. Pierce, Edmund Hayes, Frank
H. Goodyear, and George Urban, Jr.

The committee was empowered
to go to the meeting of the railroad traffic managers and present the situation
collectively. Later the committee met and organized and decided to meet
again today at the Service building. It is probable that a division of
the work will be made, part of the committee to go to New York and part
to the meeting of the traffic managers.

July 11: The
banking committee has approved the proposition to reduce the Sunday admission
to 25 cents, and the new rate will go into effect next Sunday. This was
the decision of the committee at a meeting held yesterday afternoon at
the Service building.

It was decided to try the
effect of the reduction, and if the results are what is anticipated it
will be permanent. If not, the old rate of 50 cents will be restored after
the first of August.

There are three more Sundays
in July. This will be time enough to try the low rate. A new ticket will
be used. It is a pink ticket and will be sold to all at the one price of
25 cents, adults and children. There will be no reduction of this rate
for children.

In explaining their action
the directors state that they desire to extend the patronage of the Exposition
to the workingmen of Buffalo, to whom the priced of 50 cents was a barrier.
On Sunday all the buildings will be open except the Government building.
All the Midway attractions will be closed, but the Art Gallery and the
band concerts and the organ recital, al of which are of the highest standard,
are good features of interest. The Midway restaurants will be open also,
and Alt Nurnberg, which was closed last Sunday, will be open during the
afternoon and evening, and the Royal Bavarian Band will give a popular
concert beginning at 5 o'clock.

July
12: Miss Lena Hall, a school teacher 23 years
of age, of Antwerp, N.Y., who is here visiting the Pan-American Exposition,
had an exciting experience with a burglar in a tent in the rear of 76 North
Norwood avenue early this morning. She shouted for assistance, but no one heard
her, and the burglar succeeded in making his escape, taking with him $100 worth
of jewelry belonging to Miss Hall.

Miss Hall came to
Buffalo a few days ago and went to stay at the place mentioned. All the rooms
in the house were taken and Miss Hall was told that the only space left was
a tent in the back yard. Not wanting to waste time looking for better quarters,
she rented the tent for a week.

She spent all yesterday
at the fair grounds and did not return until late last night. In the tent is
a bed, dresser and wash stand. When Miss Hall retired she removed her jewelry
and placed it in the dresser drawer. Shortly after 4 o'clock this morning she
was awakened by the noise of a man prying open the dresser drawer. She looked
and was horrified to see a burglar. She made an outcry and he threatened to
kill her if she did not keep still. In fear of her life she then remained quiet.

The burglar carried
away her gold watch, coin purse with small amount of money, a diamond ring and
two gold rings set with pearls. The police of the Delevan Avenue Station were
notified this morning and all the detectives in the city were working on the
case.

July 13: Tomorrow
evening will see the Exposition invaded by a host of Rochester wheelmen.
The third annual century run, under the auspices of the Sidepaths of the
Flower City, will have the Rainbow City as its objective point.

The party, which will probably
consist of 100 members, will leave Rochester early tomorrow morning, and
under competent pacemakers will take a roundabout ride to Buffalo, reaching
here about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, after covering an even 100 miles.
Free sleeping accommodations will be provided the wheelmen at Camp Comfort
for the night and they will return to Rochester by wheel or train on Monday
morning.

A handsome souvenir medal,
lettered, "Sidepath Pan-American Run", will be furnished those who finish
the ride within the time limit. After dinner tomorrow evening the wheelmen
will visit the Pan-American Exposition in a body and view the illumination.

July 14 Letter to the
editor: 'It is truly too bad that a charming little village like Kenmore
should be so abused by many of Buffalo's citizens. I understand that this
place has been struggling for various aids from Buffalo which might be
granted by the turning of a hand, but which have been denied over and over
again. Kenmore is certainly a most deserving suburb and will make a most
creditable annexation to Buffalo some day. It would be humane for Buffalo
to grant Kenmore the privileges of water, say nothing of other ways she
might help her struggling sister. I say human because Kenmore has no access
to good water. Could good wells be had the story might be a different one
but they cannot be had.

Aside from this the thing
that is trying the patience of the good people of Kenmore more than anything
else is the action of many of the police officers and street car conductors
in directing people who want to come out here for rooms during their visit
to the big show. There are cases on record where police officers on important
corners on Main street, on being asked how to get to Kenmore, have replied
that Kenmore is away outside the city 10 or 12 miles away, and one
even went so far as to say that one might as well go to Niagara Falls as
to Kenmore for rooms.

Then many private individuals
have said all kinds of wrong things about Kenmore trying to persuade visitors
that they would not be satisfied here and in many cases succeeded
in sidetracking people who had their rooms already spoken for at Kenmore.
As a visitor and one who has been at Kenmore for two weeks I think these
erroneous ideas and misleading statements should be corrected and so I
trust your "Everybody's Column" may be open to a few words from one who
does not live in Buffalo, but who in his home town reads with interest
your valuable paper.

Kenmore, as I have seen it
after two weeks' stay, is a most charming suburb of Buffalo. It is in full
view of all the main buildings of the Exposition and the electrical display
and fireworks are superb from here. The East Amherst gate is reached in
9 minutes and the West Amherst in about 15.

The air is fine and bracing,
even on extremely hot days. It is quiet and a most charming place to sleep
aftre a day's tramp at the Fair. Anyone who says Kenmore is an out-of-the-way
place or unhandy to reach from the Exposition or the city knows nothing
of the facts of the case. The Buffalo officials certainly ought to be informed
concerning how to reach here at least and the street car conductors above
all others should know, as one of the street car lines of the city passes
right through the heart of the suburb.

July 15: All
the spielers of the Midway and Free Midway and a thousand more people besides
attended the picnic of the Talkers and Lecturers' Association at Eagle
Park, Grand Island, yesterday. It is estimated that the attendance was
not less than 2000. Not a person was killed and only one man was injured.

All the distinguished members
of the profession were there, including King Tobin, wearing a luxurious
Panama, "Mayor" George Hamilton and Professah Alexander Hamilton. There
was nothing doing until the first 15 barrels of beer had been consumed.
Then somebody started something. In a jiffy the barkers had shaken off
their lethargy and everybody took a punch or two. In the main the beer
bottles and beer glasses missed fire. One or two scalp wounds indicated
the exceptions.

These were the only incidents,
however, without which the affair would have been considered tame and in
consideration of which the picnic was voted a success.

July 16:
Charles Lee, general passenger agent of the Lehigh Valley railroad, was
at the Iroquois this morning. Mr. Lee derides the complaint of the Buffalo
people that the railroads are responsible for the lack of patronage of
the Exposition.

"Railroad rates are low enough,"
said Mr. Lee. "Buffalo people are foolish in their impatience because the
attendance is not larger. Rates are just as favorable for the Pan-American
as they have been for any exposition ever held in this country. The railroads
are doing practically all the business they can handle. As a matter of
fact all the patronage is coming from the outside. Buffalo people are the
ones not attending the Exposition. Anybody who has looked into the matter
will tell you that this is true. I have spent most of my time for the last
two months traveling over our lines and from what I have observed the Exposition
is suffering a black eye, in the first place from the weather and in the
second place because the Exposition was not finished on time. People say,
and I have heard them say, O, the Exposition is not finished. I am not
going until later in the season. This Exposition will be a great success.
The people are coming, but it is too early. Just at present the farmers
are all busy and the vacation period has hardly commenced."

Speaking of the prevailing
rates, Mr. Lee says it is not true that the rates are high, either for
long or short points. He cited that the rate made by the Lehigh for New
York, which is 900 miles for round trip, is only $9, or virtually a cent
a mile. For parties of a hundred or more, there is a rebate of a dollar,
making the rate less a cent a mile. This rate of a cent a mile, he said,
could be taken as a fair average of rates generally and he declared that
he did not believe that the rates would be any lower.

July 17: Every
seat in the Temple of Music was occupied and the aisles and lobbies in
the rear and in the galleries were packed for the Chautauqua Day exercises.
The crowd listened attentively during the hour of music under the direction
of Dr. H.R. Palmer, of the Chautauqua School of Music and at the end, owing
to the heat, left the Temple almost deserted for the second and third parts
of the programme. The presence of Dr. Sherwood at the piano was evidently
the main attraction and the audience listened to his number with rapt attention.

After the musical programme
Director-General Buchanan, in a brief and witty speech, welcomed the Chautauquans
to the Pan-American Exposition. He said that every man who had reached
the age of maturity and who stood for anything knew what Chautauqua meant
to the youth of this country. He declared he would do all that he could
for the comfort and convenience of the Chautauquans except to try to control
the Weather Bureau.

Prof. Clarke of the Chautauqua
School of Expression followed with a short address on the Chautauqua atmosphere.
He described the idea that was behind the Chautauqua movement as one intended
to supply instruction, cultivation, inspiration and recreation under ideal
conditions. It was a sort of camp meeting, some people thought. It was
a camp meeting, if by a camp meeting was meant that which would take the
mind if the individual away from the strenuous life to higher and better
things. It is an institution marked for spirituality without cant, protection
without fraternalism, liberty without license, freedom in association between
men and women without the conventional restrictions of modern life.

What is its atmosphere, he
asked, what are the components which represent its ozone and its oxygen
and its hydrogen? What they are can be answered by those who have been
there. No one can be in Chautauqua a day without getting the Chautauqua
fever. It is a vast clearninghouse for educational ideas. It is a place
where a teacher can't stop teaching. It is a vast consultation green where
all who have, long to give. Teaching at Chautauqua does not stop at the
lecture room - it is continued at the boarding house. It is not all the
teaching of subject matter - the teacher imparts part of his personality
to his pupils. It is essentially the communal life. It was founded for
the purpose of giving comradeship, good fellowship. People are never introduced
at Chautauqua, they simply meet and say, “Howdy”.

Following Prof. Clarke, Editor
Bray of the Chautauquan explained by the aid of an enormous map, which
covered up two spaces in the Temple of Music Gallery, the plan and scope
of a Chautauqua education. The third part of the programme was devoted
to the athletic exhibition, illustrative of the methods of instruction
in the Chautauqua physical class.July 18: The Midway
will be kept closed on Sundays. This is the announcement made by Director-General
Buchanan, to whom has been committed the enforcement of Exposition regulations,
to a NEWS reporter today. Director-General Buchanan reached his office
in the Service Building this afternoon after a conference with a number
of the directors this morning. The Midway matter was not mentioned at that
meeting, he said.

“As to all this talk about
opening next Sunday, it is written, ‘Why do the heathen rage and the people
imagine a vain thing’?” said the Director-General. “The matter has not
been brought before me officially, but I have not received any instructions,
and the old ones read that an amusement concession cannot be opened on
Sunday. If an attempt is made next Sunday or any Sunday thereafter to open
any of them, the attempt will be baffled.

How about the threat to arrest
the president and directors of the Exposition if the Midway is not allowed
to be opened.

“I have not read about that
interesting proposition, but I should judge it would be calculated to add
zest to the life of the Exposition officials. So far as I have heard none
of them has resigned yet in anticipation of that threat being carried out.”

This morning one of the Exposition
officials went down the line, conciliating the Midwayites into a better
frame of mind.

Robert L. Freyer, of the
Board of Directors of the Exposition was asked this morning by a NEWS reporter
what had been done by the board with regard to opening the Midway on Sunday.
Mr. Freyer said, “The matter has no been mentioned in board meeting and
when the board does meet again I think it will not be mentioned. The subject
has not been considered at all and I do not think it will be touched. I
do not care to say anything more, and in fact there is no more to say."

July 19: A family
of triplets arrived at the Infant Incubators this morning from New York
City. They are good healthy girls, and they weigh altogether nine pounds.
They came in a special compartment in the Lackawanna express, which arrives
at Buffalo at 7:45 o'clock, attended by their mother and three trained
nurses. The babies are seven months' children. They are 12 days old, and
from appearances they have good chances of living if treated in the ordinary
way, but the mother feared for them and, having heard of the incubators,
she posted off to Buffalo as soon as she was able, and here they are.

The little mites of girls
are Roumanians. They have black hair and a good deal of it for babies of
their dimensions. They all look alike even to their mother who had them
marked for identification so that there would be no mix up in the sleeping
cars. Dr. Coney was on duty at the Incubators when they arrived. He was
overjoyed at the coming of his guests and he immediately prepared the central
three incubators for their reception. Never before has the incubator had
a guest from so great a distance. All the nurses were delighted to do the
babies honor in the way of getting out soft wrappings and safety devices
for their comfort.

At 10 o'clock the three girls
were sleeping soundly in their berths. They are duly numbered and recorded
in the books of the institution, but in order to be known by their mother
who will be a constant attendant on them as she looks through the glass
at her babies, Dr. Coney fixed a black bow on the dress of Rebecca, a red
one for Rose and a white one for Sophia.

July 20: On Monday
the first concession in Exposition railroad rates goes into effect, the
New York Central and the Lackawanna having taken the initiative. This action
is said to be the result of an important meeting of the general passenger
agents of the large Eastern roads in New York Thursday.

Yesterday Harry Parry, general
agent for the New York Central, announced that beginning next Monday tickets
will be sold for daily excursions from all points between Syracuse and
Canandaigua on the Auburn division and Syracuse and Fairport on the main
line, and the time will be extended on all tickets east of Fairport one
day over the two-day limit. Tickets will be sold every day of the week
instead of only three days a week as heretofore.

F.P. Fox, division passenger
agent for the Lackawanna, has likewise received notice of important changes.
Taking effect July 22, tickets will be sold from all stations east of Washington,
N.J., Tuesdays and Thursdays of each week instead of Tuesdays only, as
heretofore. The transportation will be valid three days instead of two.
The five-day coach excursions, Washington and Boston inclusive, will be
sold on Tuesdays and Saturdays instead of Tuesdays as at present. On the
Syracuse division five-day coach excursion tickets from all stations, between
Binghamton and Hornell to Buffalo will be in effect daily instead of only
twice a week, as has been the rule since the Inauguration of the Exposition
rates. Similar changes have been made concerning other territory covered
by the Lackawanna system.

Other big trunk lines entering
Buffalo are expected to announce similar arrangements within a day or two.

July 21: Advice
for Pan-Americans and Others –1. Let moderation be the
watchword.2. Eat but two meals a day,
leaving out the hearty breakfast or midday meal. Make best meal in the
evening.3. Abstain from alcohol
stimulants during the day - if feeling the necessity of stimulation take
cup of warm tea or small amount of whiskey.4. Refrain from indulgence
in ice cold drinks. Drinks just cooled by ice are preferable.5. Eat flesh meat but once
per day.6. Partake of plenty of
fresh vegetables and fruit.7. Bathe twice a day - morning
and evening. Use sponge bath with tepid water and with soap once to keep
skin clean and active.8. Keep out of the sun as
much as possible.9. Take care that the bowels
are kept normally active.10. So long as you perspire
freely there is no danger of prostration.11. The enervation brought
about during the hot term is often followed by sickness toward the end
of summer or in the fall. Endeavor to keep the bodily functions normally
active.12. Don't hurry! Don’t worry!

July 22: Clean and
bright as the world upon the eighth day of creation was the Pan-American
Exposition this morning after last night's showers. When the storm rolled
up, the lights upon the Electric Tower, which are often left burning far
into the night watches, were turned off, and everything was reefed and
close-hauled in expectation of an onslaught of lightning upon the electric
wires. The Fire and Police departments held themselves in readiness to
dash out in case lightning arrestors failed to perform their functions
and so cause a fire in any of the combustible structures. However, although
the flashes of lightening were incessant and the thunder growled ominously,
the storm rolled over without inflicting any damage, and was succeeded
by quieter showers toward daybreak.

The effect upon the Exposition
landscape, and even upon the buildings, was noticeable this morning. The
red-tiled roofs looked newly washed, and lost the grimy appearance which
they have been wearing lately from the smoky atmosphere. The flowers and
grass, however, showed the benefits of the visitation most. Places where
the lawns that have been changing from the wonted fresh green to a sickly
yellow of late, fresh verdant once more at sunrise. The flowers in the
rose gardens looked revived, and those in the margins of the lagoons, lakes
and in the wooded isles looked as vigorous as ever adorned a northern wonderland.

Yesterday's experience at
the Exposition was a revelation to many in that it disclosed how cool the
Exposition is when compared with the rest of the country. There were 29,000
visitors in the grounds, but no one would have guessed there were so many
present. The reason was, they forsook the heated Midway and the torrid
stretches of the Esplanade and the Courts, and scattered themselves among
the cooler haunts. The shady slopes around the North Bay and Gala Water
sheltered thousands. They sat upon the benches or stretched themselves
upon the green sward and listened to the music of the distant bands and
watched the Electric Fountain and the gondolas and launches glide over
the water.

Others sought the wooded
isle, rich with the perennial flowers of the North, where breezes wandered
beneath the shady trees. The pergolas had their contingent, and the canals
and lake had their boating parties. It was the coolest-looking crowd, taken
all in all, that could be found anywhere else in the country South of Labrador,
and on every hand were heard praises of the Exposition as a summer resort.

July 23: Director-General
Buchanan will not become the head of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
in St. Louis. To set at rest all uncertainty as to whether he will or will
not accept the position, the Director-General has authorized the publication
of the following statement, which was made in response to a question on
the subject.

“Under no circumstances and
upon no conditions would I consent to become officially connected with
the St. Louis Exposition. I have seen it stated that a sufficient offer
of salary would induce me to continue the work in which I have been engaged
during the past summer. That is entirely erroneous. Salary is not a matter
of consideration. The duties of a director-general of a big exposition
are more trying than can be realized by anyone who has never undertaken
them, and I am in need of a rest, and shall insist upon having one.

“The question becomes one
of physical possibilities, and a man must judge his own capacity for continuous
effort and strain. I have reached the limit, and you may say without reservation,
as I have said before, that I am not considering the position. I shall
not do so. Such a proposition may just as well be taken entirely from the
slate. I expect to go to South America late this year, and while there
it is possible that I may be able to serve the St. Louis Exposition unofficially..."

July 24:
O.E. Skiff, agent for Pain's Manhattan Beach Fireworks Company, today stated
to a reporter the he would positively guarantee that the human bomb feature
advertised for Midway Day at the Pan-American would be seen. A man will
ascend in a bomb four feet in diameter to a height of 2000 feet, where
the bomb will explode, releasing the man, who will descend to the earth
with the aid of a parachute, in a pyrotechnic shower. No mortar and powder
will be used to project the bomb, although powder will be used to burst
the bomb and release the man. The bomb, with the contents, weighs about
200 pounds. It is made of wicker work and has an inner shell, which contains
the man and serves to protect him from the explosion which bursts
the bomb. The powder to burst the bomb is between the two shells. A parachute
breaks the man's fall.

A balloon is used to carry
the bomb to its height. A time fuse cuts the rope and released the bomb.
An instant later the fuse sets fire to the inner bomb and the explosion
takes place. There is a burst of flame, sparks innumerable and noises never
before heard in the pyrotechnic world. Suddenly the form of a man appears
descending from the sky. The drop is swift and sudden. Then the parachute
opens slowly, the pace slackens and the daring aeronaut descends to earth.

Leo Stevens, Pain's balloonist,
has made repeated experimental ascents, but never in public. It will be
done for the first time at the Pan-American on Midway Day.

Mr. Skiff is negotiating
with the executive committee for the production at the Pan-American of
the aeroplane flight around the Electric Tower. This feat was performed
in Paris around the Eiffel Tower, but it has never been done in public
in America. Pain has an aeroplane which he claims can be manipulated successfully.
Leo Stevens is the engineer."

July 25: At the opening
of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, John Bohne, 17 years old, of
373 Hamburg Avenue, Brooklyn, made up his mind that he would see the fair.
He requested his parents for money enough to carry him there, but could
not induce them to part with it. Several weeks ago, however, John was reported
missing from his home. His mother later discovered that $20 had been stolen
from her trunk. She notified the police and a warrant was issued for the
boy's arrest.

Yesterday, John returned
home and was immediately arrested and locked up in the Hamburg Avenue Station.
This morning he was arraigned before Justice O'Reilly in the Manhattan
Avenue Court and charged with petit larceny. John pleaded guilty. He admitted
taking the money and said that he had visited the Exposition at Buffalo
and was greatly pleased with his trip. "

July 26: Jumbo II,
the big elephant that will hereafter be king of the herd at Bostock's Animal
Show, arrived in Buffalo at an early hour this morning and about noon was
transported through the streets to the Exposition grounds. Twenty-nine
heavy truck horses drew the wagon on which Jumbo II was carried. Curious
crowds lined the streets from the depot at Carroll and Chicago streets
to the grounds.

The elephant was penned up
in an immense plank box and only his ears protruded. Nevertheless from
the size of the box and from the evident way in which it cramped the beast
it was easy for even the casual observer to note that he is a worthy successor
to the name Jumbo. Bostock claims that he is as big as the original elephant
of that name.

While in New York Tuesday,
it is said, Jumbo killed a horse, breaking from his pen while intoxicated
with a native spirit distilled from the sap of a cocoanut palm which had
been given to him by his keepers.

July 27: Yumeto Kushibiki,
the general manager of “Fair Japan”, the Japanese Village at the Exposition,
fell under an Elmwood Avenue trolley car this morning and the wheels passed
over his left leg, crushing it so badly that the surgeons at the Sisters'
Hospital where he was taken, declared amputation necessary. The leg will
be amputated just below the knee.

The accident occurred about
11:15 o'clock this morning in front of the Tifft House. Mr. Kushibiki ran
into the street to catch an Elmwood Avenue car bound for the Exposition
grounds. The car was moving rapidly and as he tried to jump on the steps
he slipped and fell under the wheels of the trailer.

The cars were immediately
brought to a stop and after Mr. Kushibiki had been removed to a nearby
store the Emergency ambulance was sent for. He was taken in an ambulance
to the Sisters' Hospital, where it was at once announced that the leg could
not be saved. If Mr. Kushibiki survives the shock of the amputation, he
stands a good chance of recover as the surgeons say he is not injured internally.

The car which ran over Mr.
Kushibiki was trailer 167. It was in charge of Theodore Gander of 12 Rees
Street, conductor. The motorman on the front car was James Nesbit.

It is supposed that Mr. Kushibiki
was on his way to the Exposition grounds. He was unable to give an explanation
of the accident. The story of the conductors and information obtained by
the police are to the effect that Mr. Kushibiki lost his balance when his
hand was just on the rail of the foremost car and that his momentum caused
him to fall directly in the path of the trailer.

The injured man is one of
the best known among the Pan-American concessionaires. He is a Japanese,
35 years old and lives in bachelor apartments. He returned only yesterday
from a trip to New York where he went to secure a number of Geisha girls
for “Fair Japan”

July 28: Mr. J.J.
Wright, manager of the Toronto Electric Light Company, when shown the Buffalo
dispatch stating that arrangements were being made to communicate with
Toronto from the Electric Tower at the Pan-American Exposition grounds,
said that while no application had been made to his company for the purpose,
he believed it quite feasible to communicate with Buffalo in that way from
the hills north of Toronto with an ordinary 2600 candlepower arc light,
and the proper reflection to concentrate the rays. It would be more successful
on a cloudy night. The Morse code, he said, could be very conveniently
used for conveying a message. Mr. Wright added that when half way across
the lake on a recent evening he quite distinctly saw the flashes of a search
light working from Toronto. The light in question was on a steamer in the
harbor.

July 29:
Forebodings of failure for the Exposition have been common since July 1.
A large proportion of the public who have nothing to base judgment on except
external evidence, which in some cases is not always the best evidence,
have taken to speculate adversely upon the attendance. A croaker is the
vulture of the business world and this Exposition has not escaped him.
Accordingly, people with the best intentions in the world have taken to
questioning the success of the Exposition and a feeling of possible financial
failure has developed.

Officials of the Exposition
have been aware of this unfavorable atmosphere for some time, but knowing
the inside facts it has appeared too ridiculous for serious attention.
However, for the purpose of reassuring once and for all the people who
are interested in the success of the enterprise, President Milburn today
makes public the following written statement, which ought to satisfy the
most pessimistic person that fears of the failure of the Exposition are
entirely groundless:

“The Exposition has been
much more than paying its expenses since the beginning of June, and has
already accumulated a considerable surplus, applicable to the payment of
its bonds. That surplus is increasing daily.

The Exposition is having
the same experience that every other exposition has had, particularly the
World's Fair. The masses outside of the city where an exposition is held
do not attend during May, June and July. Their attendance begins in August
and increases during September and October. It is during those months that
the excursion business is done.

All indications show that
that is to be the experience of this Exposition. The reports from railroad
men, hotel men and travelers are all to that effect. The attendance up
to the present time has come up to the expectations of reasonable people,
and it has been gradually increasing. During August the increase will be
more marked. An attendance during August, September and October equal to
the attendance at Chicago during October alone will pay all the obligations
of the Exposition, including its bonded indebtedness and will leave a large
surplus for the stockholders.

There are the soundest reasons
for expecting such attendance and more. The visitors are returning to their
homes highly pleased and are spreading abroad the beauty, magnitude and
interest of the Exposition. Railroad rates are to be satisfactory and at
a figure which will draw the masses. There is in Buffalo a great abundance
of accommodations, very desirable in every way and at a low figure.

The floating indebtedness
of the company for construction is a comparatively small one. Its payment
is now under consideration between the Exposition officials and a committee
representing the bondholders, and there is no doubt but a satisfactory
arrangement of it will be made. The daily operating expenses are not one-third
of the daily revenues and therefore they are amply provided for.

July 30: One hundred
Pan-American Exposition carpenters this morning began the work of erecting
in the Stadium what is designed to be the fastest quarter-mile board track
for bicycle racing in the country. Designed by Sperry & Loller, a firm
of Eastern engineers and contractors, it will be constructed on scientific
principles, having a banking of 12 feet, four inches at the circles. This
will allow the fastest motor cycle ever built to go around the curves at
full speed. The track will be similar to the famous banked track at Madison
Square Garden, New York, and is the counterpart of several tracks which
are now being built in the East, under the supervision of the same firm.
Mr. Sperry, the senior member of the concern, is on the ground personally
overseeing the work.

The surface of the track
will be as perfect as that of any parlor floor. It will be constructed
of specially cured inch boards, laid on joists, 22 inches apart. The track
is 20 feet wide, directly over the cinder track, and it is feared that
the latter will suffer some. The track will be finished by next Saturday
in ample time for the two weeks' National amateur and professional bicycle
racing, which begins next Monday morning.

There will be no athletic
events in the Stadium this week, and the first events after the bicycle
races will be on Aug. 22 and 23, when the firemen's tournament will be
held, and on Aug. 24, when the A.A.U. gymnastics will be held. It will
require a great deal of hustling to get the board track cleared away and
the cinder track ready for these games.

July 31: Henry T.
Jaeger, chairman of the Local Railway Passenger Agents' Association, John
E. Murphy, chairman of the local hotel men's organization, Edward H. Butler,
president of the Publisher's Association, John N. Scatcherd, chairman of
the Pan-American railway committee, and W.D. Thayer of the Pan-American
rooming bureau, were selected as a committee to draft a statement for broadcast
circulation setting forth the facts with reference to existing Pan-American
railroad and hotel rates, thus correcting the universal impression that
the railroads are charging excessively high prices and that local hotel
man are fleecing their guests.

This committee was appointed
at a meeting held yesterday afternoon at 1058 Ellicott Square, at which
the publishers of the local newspapers, the Buffalo hotel men, the
local passenger agents and the Pan-American railway committee were present.

“This gathering is called,”
said Mr. Scatcherd, who presided at the meeting, “for the purpose of discussing
conditions with reference to the Pan-American Exposition, and to see what
may be done in the way of remedying certain troubles which seem to be interfering
with the attendance at the Exposition. It is generally felt that the railroad
rates are too high, but the railroad men don't agree that they are. It
is understood outside of Buffalo that our hotel men are charging excessive
rates for accommodations; the hotel men say that is not the case. Complaint
has been made that our newspapers have not given sufficient publicity to
the fact that the Exposition is finished, but the newspaper men seem to
think they have done their duty as far as that is concerned. Let us get
together and ascertain, if possible, just what the trouble is.” Running
discussions followed, during which George H. Woolley of the Iroquois,
Mr. Duchscherer of the Lenox and other hotel men made known the prices
at their respective hostelries. Then Mr. Conners joined in the debate with
excellent ideas, vigorously expressed.

“It is time to stop dilly-dallying,”
said he. “Each fellow here says he's all right. We all are all right. Only,
those outside think we are not all right. Some fellows have their rates
so high that they have no one in their house. Now, let them come down off
their perch. Some new hotels are crowded, some old hotels are empty. Everyone
raised rates but the papers. The daily papers did more for this fair and
get less out of it than the others. If you are going to do something in
the right way, do it and you'll find we will send it out to every corner
of the country.”

Mr. Underwood declared the
Pan-American railroad rates are lower than rates have ever been for any
previous exposition. Mr. Pierce spoke of the necessity of letting the people
of the country understand that the railroads are doing reasonably well
and that good accommodations are obtained here at prices to suit everybody.
Mr. Mack said it was high time for Buffalo to stop “knocking” the Exposition.

Mr. Sawyer delivered a speech
replete with sound, hard sense, and the meeting was adjourned after the
appointment of the committee referred to above.